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Hi, any idea what might cause a Shoutcast stream to play 5 seconds of silence randomly about 2 to 3 times a day?
Several user agents react to the silence by dropping (the important one is the relay connection which is designed to drop after hearing 5 seconds of silence and then reconnect 2 minutes later - which makes for an unprofessional experience, but we have no control over this). There isn't a network disconnect event unless a client decides to drop the connection due to silence. It doesn't happen on the same source mp3, in fact the same source mp3 works fine the next time. It happens in roughly the middle of songs and never at the very beginning or end.
Supposedly CPU and memory usage isn't high (according to the hosting company) Any suggestions on what logs might have useful information if the thread handling the streaming is blocked for 5 seconds, or perhaps fails to read a block on the source mp3 and then eventually retries 5 seconds later?
Several user agents react to the silence by dropping (the important one is the relay connection which is designed to drop after hearing 5 seconds of silence and then reconnect 2 minutes later - which makes for an unprofessional experience, but we have no control over this). There isn't a network disconnect event unless a client decides to drop the connection due to silence. It doesn't happen on the same source mp3, in fact the same source mp3 works fine the next time. It happens in roughly the middle of songs and never at the very beginning or end.
Supposedly CPU and memory usage isn't high (according to the hosting company) Any suggestions on what logs might have useful information if the thread handling the streaming is blocked for 5 seconds, or perhaps fails to read a block on the source mp3 and then eventually retries 5 seconds later?
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